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| I've been looking at sires for the last three years, i've liked some of them but none of them have quite fit in some way or another. I've got a Dreamfinder mare I'd like to breed but I just want to make sure I'm making the right decision when it comes to a stud.
I don't care about color and I don't care about height, my priorities are proven performance and conformation. I'd like to keep the stud fee under 2000. any and all recommendations and favorite studs are welcomed, i'm a sucker for stocky,correct, traditional quarter horses. Picture below is of her.
www.allbreedpedigree.com/darlas+candy+girl
Thanks in advance!
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Do you have a pic with out the saddle so we can see all her conformation? |
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Location: Middle Tennessee | I don't have a suggestion for a specific stud but it appears that she has a longer back than ideal and a steep shoulder (hard to really tell with a saddle on). And she looks really fine boned in the legs. I would look for a stud with a nice short back and put emphasis on a properly, low sloping shoulder and strong, thick legs. |
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Location: NW. Florida | There is an Ivory James Appaloosa stud that is a pretty boy. I can't think of his name, but he comes from a performance family. |
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Location: Central Texas | Nice mare!
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PG Dry Fire is a cowbred siring performance horses in a variety of events. I have one in the oven for 2018.
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I'm not sure of all their stud fees, but I think they are around your budget.
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| I bred to Fly the Red Eye last year and I really like the colt I got. You can google him and he has a facebook page. For me, I really liked the idea that he is an AQHA supreme champion. He has a 96 SI, is the Reserve world champion performance halter stallion, and has roping and reining points. To me, that sounds like a combination of good looks, fast speed and brains. My colt is a looker, good mover and has a SUPER disposition. Semen shipped great and the owner was very pleasant to deal with. He is in several stallion auctions, so you might get a deal on his breeding fee. I had already had another stud booked for this years breeding, but I will go back to Fly the Red Eye next year. |
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| What has this horse done as far as performance? I think you get as much influence from the mare as you do from the stallion. In other words, you have to have superior mares to breed to quality performance horses. Also, the stud fee is probably the cheaper part of getting one to the age they can compete. You are looking at about 6 years in the future before you are actually competitive. With stud fees, vet fees, feed, training, plus the fact that you don't know what you are going to get or that young horses get hurt easily, you would probably come out ahead financially to buy a yearling or two year old. I look at ads on BHW all the time and there are some nice horses with decent prices on here all the time. |
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| You need to check the Appaloosa Horse Club registration rules because I think if you breed an App to another breed and the foal does not have App characteristics, it cannot be registered as an App. The used to be a lady that had a horse that had won a bunch of things on her mare that could not be registered as an App so was a grade horse. All I remember is the lady lived up north like in the Dakotas. |
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